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The “NABU agent” smokescreen and 640 millions for child safety: how the budget is being looted in Dnipro during the war
While Ukrainians donate to the army every day and survive under shelling, Dnipro city officials and their affiliated contractors have built a foolproof system for siphoning off hundreds of millions from the budget. Under the cover of “care for safety” and “reconstructions” lies a cynical embezzlement scheme where shelters for children and hospitals have been turned into a feeding trough for a chosen pool of companies.
Figures in this scheme include Deputy Mayor of the city #Маковцев and the director of the Department of Capital Construction of the Dnipro City Council #Зуєв, who acted as the formal customer in tenders. ❗ In total, more than 640 million hryvnias passed along a prearranged route and were directed to a predetermined circle of enterprises.
The scheme proved extremely simple but effective. To disqualify “outsider” participants, tender documentation included strict and sometimes disproportionate requirements: 🔻 confirmation of material and technical capacity, possession of specific technologies, experience with similar works, and bank guarantees with full cash coverage of hundreds of thousands of hryvnias.
More than 137 million hryvnias were allocated for the construction of a protective structure for Dnipro Gymnasium No. 29. With the required 🤷♂️ package of documents, the winner was LLC TEHBUDRESURS. Another 174,8 million hryvnias for a shelter for Dnipro Lyceum No. 144 went to LLC SK STROYINVEST.
Additionally, 210,9 million hryvnias were given to LLC STARBUDKONTRAKT for the reconstruction of the therapeutic building of the Emergency Medical Hospital, and almost 💰 62,7 million hryvnias went to LLC SKS_MONOLIT for repairs to the pump-and-filter station. Furthermore, the reconstruction of stormwater sewer networks on Lyvarna Street, costing almost 56 million hryvnias, was carried out entirely without using the electronic procurement system, with the contract awarded directly to PE NOVA.
📌 The position of Dnipro’s mayor deserves special attention. Back in 2022, Borys #Філатов publicly handed Maxim #Микитась over to NABU for allegedly offering a bribe, gaining the informal status of “NABU agent.” However, when the same companies are taking more than half a billion hryvnias under the mayor’s nose through artificially limited competition and opaque procedures, all that “principled” stance of 🤷♂️ somehow disappears. It seems convenient to use the whistleblower status as a shield for one’s own schemes.
A post on this topic collected as many as a thousand likes, almost 100 comments, and nearly 200 reposts.❗This situation provokes rightful outrage among citizens:
“That’s why his daughter lives so lavishly... They gave 10 billion hryvnias to replace water mains... I doubt anyone actually replaced anything...”
“Those are the kind of people who sell and destroy Ukraine — monsters who bought estates abroad and are living fat.”
“I also believe he deserves death for his thefts!!”
“Put the thieves in prison”
As long as law enforcement agencies pretend not to notice artificially tailored tender requirements and direct deals worth tens of millions, the city budget will continue to melt away into the pockets of front companies. Covering for “their own” under the fake guise of fighting corruption is a direct threat to national security during the war.
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▫️Filatov brazenly ran schemes on safety, shelters, and hospitals under NABU’s protection for 640 million
▫️Filatov “under the cover” of war gave 107 million to a firm with a criminal track record
▫️Untouchable NABU agents: Akhmetov, Klitschko, Trukhanov, Filatov, Kubrakov, Tymoshenko, Holyk
#Дніпро #тендери #відбудова #укриття
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